Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The detail from the lithograph reproduced on the opposite page shows some of the natural sources of electric power and a few of the men whose philosophical and scientific knowledge helped open up the mysteries of electrical energy to man. The other panel (overleaf) is a fanciful melange of the...
Russian Assignment, by Leslie C. Stevens. An enlightening account of two years in Russia, by a U.S. naval attache who found the Russian people friendly (TIME, Nov. 16).
Over and over again Stevens had to warn Russians that friendship with an American would land them in trouble. On an excursion boat near Leningrad, he met a scholarly looking old man who turned out to be "a real friend, gentle and courtly, interesting and interested." As usual, Stevens had...
Light after Darkness. Stevens' low point in Russia came not from anything that happened to him personally there, but from reading a book, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: "One should read that terrible book in Soviet Russia to experience its full impact, for it seems to be...
Stevens fished and hunted in the country near Moscow, drank gallons of vodka with casual acquaintances in bars, restaurants and railway compartments, observed the healthy good looks of Russian women, admired the drama at the Moscow Art Theater and the ballet at the Bolshoi, gave freely to beggars, noted the...